Re: Buy a permanent archive! (was Re: now on cco.caltech.edu ..)

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>Trouble is, if this is gonna be a PERMANENT storage device as Jawaid
>suggests, then it would have to be bigger than 130 MB.  Many GS'ers
>have drives at least this big and they fill up fast.  Add non-GS
>specific stuff such as TT fonts, Amiga MODS, GIFs, sound samples, and
>so forth, and 130 MB will seem like my
>5.25" drive compared to my HD.  On the other hand, if we have a cool
>moderator who's not afraid to zap useless, redundant or outdated stuff
>found on OTHER ftp sites (ahem) and will only take on GS-specific
>software, it should be fine for a long while, as long as GS software
>keeps coming out at the rate it is now.  But, I liked the suggestion
>that we spread out the software among the several sites we already
>have and avoid redundancy and load on one specific site.  My 2 bytes
>worth.

Why preserve non-][gs stuff in this Apple ][ specific site?  In the case of
cco, I think those Amiga mods should be deleted, and be replace by a little
text file pointer to tell where people to get mods from, and maybe also
list some of the popular songs.

A sort of unrelated question I have...  how does mirror work?  If a site mirrors
something, does it have all the same files physically too?  If not, where're
the files located?

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